After 10 years at the legal wheel for auto paint chain Earl Scheib Inc., David Sunkin jump-started a career in private practic...
When Occidental College student Jason Antebi hosted his own talk show on the campus radio station, he offended students with a...
HOSPITALITY CORONADO ISLAND - SCP Coronado LLC purchased the 41,700-square-foot Coronado Plaza at 1330 Orange Ave. from G&...
When Larry Braun began his career as a corporate attorney, the Internet didn't exist. As a result, neither did e-mail or virtu...
Thomas Holman claims that his employers gave him a dangerous painting job after he complained of racial discrimination. He fel...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Criminal trials are not a spectator sport. As recently noted by the 9th ...
Entertainment & Sports
Moonlighting Lawyer Article Wastes Space
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - (Regarding "Attorney Doubles as Porn Star," April 20 Los Angeles Daily Journal; "Lawyer Keeps Clients W...
Letter to the Editor - I am sick to death of reading the seemingly endless hooey streaming from the word processors of fools a...
What really impresses corporate attorney Richard Grant about Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket is that it packs q...
Constitutional Law
In America, History of Secularism Begins With the Constitution
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Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - Here's a pop quiz for all the true patriots in the group: How many times does the word ...
Judges and Judiciary
Surprise, Democrats: Janice Rogers Brown Epitomizes 'Progressive'
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Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - I have a dream. That one day Roe v. Wade , as dreadful a decision as Dred Scott , wi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Windfeld-Hansen realized almost immediately that he made the wrong decision when he left Heller, Ehrman,...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury may have been confused about a judge's instructions when they convicted a Brinks security gu...
EXTRA Feature - Editors' note: Daily Journal EXTRA recently assembled a group of high-ranking in-house counsel who are women t...
LOS ANGELES - About 30,000 employees at an El Segundo technology company will share $24 million under an overtime-pay settlem...
SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles surgeon who sued medical giant Medtronic Inc. over the use of his inventions and won has agreed to ...
LOS ANGELES - Robert David Wilson, a state deputy attorney general in Los Angeles and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has been appo...
Judges and Judiciary
Christian Telecast Criticizing Judges Concerns Attorneys
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Christian telecast set for broadcast Sunday to criticize judges as out-of-control liberal activists has caused ...
SACRAMENTO - An advisory committee on rules for the federal judiciary has again voted to recommend the federal courts allow l...
LOS ANGELES - As chairman of the last three winning campaigns for Los Angeles mayor, attorney Bill Wardlaw cemented himself as...
SAN FRANCISCO - For several years, Teveia Barnes worked exclusively with pro bono clients at her small law clinic in San Rafa...
Palm Springs is home to a vibrant gay community. But, according to a recently filed suit, the city's Police Department is bias...
LOS ANGELES - Litigator Michael Novicoff jumped from his own firm, Reuben & Novicoff, to Westwood's Liner Yankelevitz Sun...
SAN FRANCISCO - James J. Corbett, the great Irish-American boxer known as Gentleman Jim, was born in San Francisco and fought ...
INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Phil Bollman purchased a 6,700-square-foot industrial building at 977 Enterprise Ave. from an undisclose...
LOS ANGELES - A Southland federal air marshal, grounded last year after criticizing an article in People magazine that he bel...
Labor/Employment
Employees Don't Forfeit Bonuses By Resignation Or Termination
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Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - California law abhors forfeiture, and when it comes to employee wages, contract terms ca...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Finality of Arbitration Decisions Rests On Uneven Legal Ground
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Fredrick Booke - In Moncharsh v. Heily & Blas , 3 Cal.4th 1 (1992), the...
Constitutional Law
Law Should Hold Media Accountable for False Information
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Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the press from most forms of government...
International
Latest Edition of Arbitration Tome Covers Everything -- Almost
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Book Review - By Justice Richard M. Mosk - A few decades ago, there were few lawyers who specialized in arbitration - either d...